amice
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"Is this the amice of the friar you saw issue from the copse?" asked Ludwig, holding up a patched amice such as is worn by the Capuchin friars.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander
The Dominican Friars still wear the amice on the head when approaching the altar at mass.
From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George
On other occasions the girded alb and the amice are often worn by the deacon and subdeacon.
From The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness by Regester, J. A. (Jacob Asbury)
How strange the evidence, too, that convicted him, the theft of the bottle of hair dye, the remarkable patch on his amice.
From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander
Superhumeral, sū-pėr-hū′me-ral, n. anything carried on the shoulders: the amice: the pallium: a Jewish ephod.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
